Artist: Peter Pelham, American, born England, 1697–1751, Cotton Mather (1663- 1728), Mezzotint, sheet: × cm (13 7/8 × 10 1/16 in.), Newly arrived in the colonies in 1727, Peter Pelham asked the venerable Congregational minister Cotton Mather to sit for the engraver’s first mezzotint portrait to be made on American soil—evidence of Pelham’s business acumen and his eagerness to establish a reputation in this country. Mather—a prolific writer, scholar, and minister of the Second Church in Boston—was perhaps the most celebrated of all New England Puritans. Though Mather posed for

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